why don’t people in zombie apocalypse stories ever just wear suits of armor? you think any zombie is gonna get their shitty rotting jaws through this?
I’m gonna rip and tear my way through the zombie apocalypse completely unharmed because none of the undead hoards will be able to get through my plate mail
everyone else is like “oh we gotta stay inside the most secure places possible and never leave” and I’ll be storming through the wastelands in my bloodstained suit of armor, blasting the Doom (2016) OST and plowing my way through waves of the undead. one of them tries to bite me but his shitty rotting teeth don’t even leave a dent in my armor before I turn his head into paste. I’ll be unstoppable until I die of dehydration or something like an idiot
this goes along with my other pet peeve about zombie apocalypse stories, namely: why does no one ever think to ride a bike?
bikes are quiet- if the zombies react to loud noises, they won’t hear you on a bike the way they might hear you in a car. bikes don’t need gas, meaning you won’t be stranded if you run out. bikes are much, much easier to maintain than a car- there’s no computer that can short out, no fiddly engine bits that could kill you if you mess with them wrong. you can learn how to maintain a bike with a couple weeks’ worth of classes. almost every adult knows how to ride a bike, and without cars on the road, it’d be much safer to do.
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Oh it got better
Okay, this is a fun post, but I feel like the quietness of the bike doesn’t really matter because a suit of armor is definitely not quiet.
Yes. Well. I decided to do a submission to this contest! (The link goes to my design - but please consider looking through the whole gallery. Lots of pretty things there which deserves ratings!)
Barbarella and the Great Tyrant cosplay from 2013’s Dragon Con. Barbarella- Lady Lomax The Great tyrant- Sherri Bell
Barbarella’s chain mail is just soda can pull tabs or pop tops. Collected for 10 months and then assembled in 3 days. Her boots are vintage 60’s go go boots modified with the red cuff and stripes. The ray gun or “Missile Projector” is wood, vacuum formed plastic, PVC and a custom fiber glass hand, it also lit up when the trigger was pulled.
